REVIEW: Dear Lizzie by Annie Lyons

Dear Lizzie by Annie Lyons: Lizzie Harris has been on her own a lot longer than she would like to think about. She has been out of her house for fifteen years, and in those years all the hurts that kept her from going back have just gotten stronger and stronger. The only lifeline to her past, her sister. Her sister who cancer just claimed and with that Lizzie takes a step into the past, or at least back to her small hometown.

The trip down memory lane doesn’t end there though, in fact her sister left her a package twelve letters to help her get through the first her and to help her become her own woman. A lot can happen in a year, people can change and happiness can be found.

This is not your traditional romance story, in many ways it’s not your traditional anything story, but it is a HEA.

Lizzie was so well written it was hard to put her down to do anything, I could honestly sees shades of so many people I know in her. There isn’t a ton of detail in the location, this is all about the feeling and the emotion… well and a bookstore.

This is not a light easy read but more a heart squeezing, going to make you reach for tissues, laugh out load, throw things and then reach for your wine kind of a read. Without giving away too much I will say it ends in a happily, but perhaps not the one you think of when you first see it.

Book Info:

Published July 8th 2014 by Carina UK

Two sisters. Twelve letters. One year that changes everything.

Lizzie and Bea Harris were always very close. They were sisters and nothing could tear them apart. Until Bea dies at the age of thirty-five, leaving her sister twelve letters and a mission that will change Lizzie’s life forever.

Alone for the first time Lizzie is left trying to pull together the pieces of a life she has for so long ignored. With Bea’s list of last requests, Lizzie has a chance to finally find a place for herself in the world – out from under the shadow of her sister.